i need to find a good antivirus to remove sum virus that r free
2006-08-18 16:38:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I did my own test on the 4 free ones I know of (AntiVir, AVG, Bitdefender, Avast). I couldn't find any decent reviews that I trusted, so I conducted my own test.
I took a machine and went to every bad idea I could think of. Once my machine locked up with bugs, I copied the hard drive 4 times and installed bitdefender, antivir, avg, and avast on each partition and saw how well they did.
bitdefender was the best, but the free scanner, did not do real time scanning (fine for me, but bad for my customers), so I choose #2 Antivir which was really close to #1 and easy to setup. AVG came in farther down at #3 and avast was last.
An interesting side note to the story was that I recopied 2 of the partitions to their buggy state and ran a trial of Norton and McGafee on them and 3 out of 4 of the free scanners beat them both with 1/4 of the overhead.
I did this almost 6 months ago, so things may have changed, but I'm sticking with antivir at http://free-av.com
PS: I just read some statements above and wanted to mention a couple of things I agree with. http://www.download.com is a great place to start when looking for any program. Ad-aware is a great addition to fighting bugs. It can be found at http://www.lavasoft.de
PSS: the actual numbers were as follows, out of 73 bugs:
bitdefender found 63
antivir found 61
avg found 57
McGafee found 51
Norton found 49
avast found 48
2006-08-18 17:49:44 · answer #1 · answered by PC Doctor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try AVG Free edition, it's slower than subscription Norton AntiVirus but it works wonders.
2006-08-18 16:42:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are no virus removers except norton.those free and others dont work very well.norton is about 35-45 dollars for a year but well worth it believe me im not rich !but i use AD-AWARE almost everyday.not exactly a virus remover but it helps alot and ITS FREE. after using it my computer runs realy well
2006-08-18 16:46:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows live one care free for 3 months
2006-08-18 16:50:34 · answer #4 · answered by varaganti 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have used avast! antivirus for years now. It is free. It updates itself automatic. I have had no problems with avast!
2006-08-18 16:48:32 · answer #5 · answered by Zeta 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AVG is total junk. I recommend antivir free edition.
2006-08-19 06:05:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
avg. its the best free. go to download.com. its owned by cnet.. and its supposedly guaranteed that no spyware and stuff in there downlaods. i used it. and i like there stuff. just go look at firewalls and anitvirus's. see what you like and dl it. make sure its free and not trial. unless you might want to buy it
2006-08-18 16:52:32 · answer #7 · answered by kid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
McAfee AVERT Stinger
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2006-08-18 16:49:33 · answer #8 · answered by PD GAL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Avast! (www.avast.com). It's free for home use, and they give you updates for 14 months.
2006-08-18 16:47:30 · answer #9 · answered by Lucas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
norton-we use the free trial and when it runs out we use it again.we don't pay a freakin'dime for it.
2006-08-18 16:47:05 · answer #10 · answered by changeling 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋